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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"JSL"”.
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The effects of affective variables and kanji growth on L1 Chinese JSL learners' kanji learning
Learning kanji (i.e., the Chinese characters utilized in the Japanese writing system) is unique for learners of Japanese who speak Chinese as their first language (L1) due to their ability to transfer their knowledge of L1 hanzi (i.e., the Chinese characters utilized in the Chinese writing system). …
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The numeral system of Japanese Sign Language from a cross-linguistic perspective
… investigates how the Japanese Sign Language (JSL) numeral system can be characterised with respect to aspects of the linguistic structure of JSL numerals at the phonological and morphological levels; to typological comparisons with other sign languages; and, finally, to sociolinguistic …
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JAPANESE PUBLIC MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHERS PERCEPTIONS OF JAPANESE AS SECOND LANGUAGE (JSL) LEARNERS: DYNAMICS OF RACIALIZATION
… understanding how Japanese as second language (JSL) learners are racialized in Japanese public schools and the degree to which Japanese public middle school teachers support or interrupt these processes. The approach taken in this study was qualitative; data was collected between December 2008 …
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Life Stories of Nikkeijin Seeking Better Opportunities: The Motivation of Brazilian Immigrants in Japan
… in Japan to learn Japanese as a second language (JSL). This qualitative study shows the life experiences of four nikkeijin who arrived in Japan at different ages (8, 18, 25 and 42 years old). It is a very richly descriptive study about the experiences of nikkeijin learning JSL. Through interviews …
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Plava: a persistent, lightweight Java [TM] virtual machine
… be made. The machine is able to interface with P JSL, the persistent store being developed for PJama. Applications such as Generalised Search Tree (GiST) indexing of data collections have been run on the machine, as well as traversals from the OO7 benchmark suite. The performance of different …